Christie's selected the items with help from the president's daughter, Amy, for a special sale in celebration of the nation's ...

New research reveals traces of plant toxins on arrow tips in South Africa, suggesting that the technique was used tens of ...

From the cockpit of his plane, photographer Jassen Todorov’s eagle eye captures memorable landscapes ...

A smart wheelchair, an A.I.-powered tennis ball launcher, a mirror that reports on your health and more were on display at ...

These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...

Sleep may have evolved to help reduce DNA damage in nerve cells long before they became centralized in the brain, a study ...

Shaking caused by quakes may cause ocean floor vents to release more nutrients, triggering blooms in plant-like organisms ...

Announced on Monday, the revised schedule drops the number of recommended immunizations from 17 to 11. The CDC suggests that ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Two sloth bear cubs were born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) on December ...

A new book by historian and archaeologist Eve MacDonald paints a more complete portrait of the once-great African society ...

From the Smithsonian magazine archives, some of our favorite reader questions about our nation's founding upon its 250th ...